Japanese Sales Charts Have The Last of Us Still in the Top 10, Earth Defense Force 2025 Starts at #1

July 10, 2013Written by Jason Dunning

Even a 57% drop in sales couldn’t keep The Last of Usout of the top 10 best-selling games in Japan between July 1st and 7th, as it held its ground and stayed in 8th place. As for a new release this week, Earth Defense Force 2025, the PS3 version placed first with just shy of 155,000 sold, whereas the Xbox 360 finished at 6th, with over 23,300 sold.

On systems, the PlayStation Vita took a dip, ending up at 20,776, with the PS3 and PSP garnering 11,683 and 5,768, respectively.

Here’s the top 20 selling games in Japan for the week ending July 7th:

Earth Defense Force 2025 (PS3) – 154,689

Toukiden (PSV) – 43,315

Toukiden (PSP) – 33,126

Gundam Breaker (PS3) – 32,030

Friend Collection: New Life (3DS) – 31,996

Earth Defense Force 2025 (360) – 23,371

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (3DS) – 18,819

The Last of Us (PS3) – 14,085

Toriko: Gourmet Battle! (3DS) – 13,315

Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millenium Girl (3DS) – 12,765

Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS) – 11,354

Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS) – 10,813

Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode (3DS) – 10,690

Atelier Escha & Logy: The Alchemist of Empty Twilight (PS3) – 10,292

Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition (Wii) – 4,665

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 (PS3) – 4,034

Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Missions (3DS) – 3,732

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (3DS) – 3,683

Date A Live: Rine Utopia (PS3) – 3,678

Dangan-Ronpa (PSP) – 3,660

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